Friday, October 26, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
San Diego fire
Everything started on Sunday, October 21st. In the morning Lyuba and I went hiking to Torrey Pines State Park. We came late at about 10 am and it was unusually crowded. I noticed that the waves were stronger than usual. However nothing indicated what was going to come.
I was driving from Carmel Valley to a store in Mission Valley area at about 14.00 in the afternoon. It took about 40 minutes to get there and to do shopping. When I was driving back, at the merge of 5 and 805 I saw very dense smoke that was extending many miles North. The bizarre fact was that there was no smoke at all 40 minutes ago on the way there.
Everything indicated that there is a gigantic fire somewhere. I started to look for the news on the radio and TV, but nothing showed up. American football was everywhere; the usual Sunday stuff.
The first news came from the internet. People in Carmel Valley UTC and La Jolla chat room (at the San Diego Tribune, the local newspaper) were wondering where does the smoke come from. The answer came back that the fire is actually in Ramona, which is about 50 miles east of Carmel Valley. Only then I realized that the winds are extremely strong and carry the smoke and fire at the rate of 20- 40 miles/hour.
Then it became clear that even costal areas can be potentially affected. We left the city for two days, but according tho those who stayed, the fire propagated forward (West) with incredible speed. It reached Rancho Santa Fe in the West. The communities of Rancho Bernardo and Poway were badly hit.
I was driving from Carmel Valley to a store in Mission Valley area at about 14.00 in the afternoon. It took about 40 minutes to get there and to do shopping. When I was driving back, at the merge of 5 and 805 I saw very dense smoke that was extending many miles North. The bizarre fact was that there was no smoke at all 40 minutes ago on the way there.
Everything indicated that there is a gigantic fire somewhere. I started to look for the news on the radio and TV, but nothing showed up. American football was everywhere; the usual Sunday stuff.
The first news came from the internet. People in Carmel Valley UTC and La Jolla chat room (at the San Diego Tribune, the local newspaper) were wondering where does the smoke come from. The answer came back that the fire is actually in Ramona, which is about 50 miles east of Carmel Valley. Only then I realized that the winds are extremely strong and carry the smoke and fire at the rate of 20- 40 miles/hour.
Then it became clear that even costal areas can be potentially affected. We left the city for two days, but according tho those who stayed, the fire propagated forward (West) with incredible speed. It reached Rancho Santa Fe in the West. The communities of Rancho Bernardo and Poway were badly hit.
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